팔레스타인인들을 위해 일하던 캐나다인 하마스에 의해 살해됨

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비비안 실버라는 여자는 74세로서 캐나다 위니펙 출신이며, 이스라엘로 1970년대에 이주하여 약 50년간 살면서 팔레스타인인들을 도왔습니다. 이스라엘이 서안지구에서 민간인 시위대 몇을 죽인 것에 대해서 맹렬히 비난한 적이 있으며, 가자지구에서 환자들이 발생하면, 이스라엘 병원으로 이송하여 치료받도록 주선하는 일들로 팔레스타인인들을 도왔습니다.

그런데 지난 10월7일 하마스대원들이 그녀의 집에 들이닥치더니, 그녀가 아들과 통화하고 있었는데, 총소리를 내면서 그 집을 불질렀습니다. 이후로 아들은 소식을 못들었는데, 최근 시체 감식결과 그녀는 그 집에서 태워진 것으로 판명났습니다.

다만, 아들은 그녀가 태워진 것이 아니라 하마스에게 인질로 잡혀가 살아있기를 바라고 있습니다.

무슬림들에게는 그들을 잘 돌보아주면, 나중에 살해하는 경우들이 수시로 있어왔으며, 스웨덴, 노르웨이, 등에서도 있었습니다.

무슬림들을 도와주면, 나중에 더 도와줄 것을 강요하며, 거절하면, 살해하는 것입니다.

이 경우에는 무슬림들이 그런 사연을 알지 못한채 그냥 죽인 것으로 보입니다.

2023. 11. 14 하토브

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver confirmed killed in Israel

Story by Sean Boynton  • 13h

Israeli-Canadian human rights campaigner Vivian Silver in an undated photo. Silver is believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas militants during the group's attack on Israel.© Family handout

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, whose family believed she had been taken hostage by Hamas militants during their brutal attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, is dead, according to Global News Canada and multiple sources close to her family.

"It is with deep sadness that the Government of Canada has learned that Canadian-Israeli citizen Vivian Silver is deceased," Global Affairs Canada said in a statement to Global News.

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The agency said it is in contact with Silver's family and providing assistance.

Five sources including a source close to the family and Israeli government also confirmed the 74-year-old Winnipeg native’s death to Global News.

The sources said her remains have been identified and that she is believed to have been killed in the initial assault by Hamas.

Messages left with Silver's family were not responded to on Monday.

Video: Friend of missing Canadian-Israelis waiting for word

Silver grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Israel in the 1970s. She quickly became a fierce campaigner, helping to launch and run various aid organizations, including Women Wage Peace.

In 2017, Silver organized a march for peace on the shores of the Jordan River in the West Bank, condemning an earlier Israeli attack that killed Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Even into her 70s, she would drive sick Palestinians from Gaza to hospitals in Israel.

"Our hearts are shattered," Women Wage Peace said in a post on X, formally known as Twitter, calling Silver "our beloved friend."

Silver's son Yonatan Ziegen previously told Global News he phoned his mother after hearing reports that Hamas gunmen were attacking civilians near her home in Be'eri Kibbutz, close to the Gaza border, on Oct. 7.

Ziegen, who lives with his wife and children in Tel Aviv, said he and his mother switched to texting through WhatsApp after he heard gunshots and screams in the background of their call.

"So we stopped talking so (the gunmen) wouldn't hear," he told Global News. "We continued corresponding through WhatsApp up until the point she wrote me to say, 'They're inside the house.'"

The house was later burned to the ground.

spoke to her son. They have not heard from her.

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Silver's other son, Chen Zeigen, said during an interview on The West Block last week that the family was contacted by the Israeli government shortly after the attack to say it had geolocated Silver’s phone in Gaza.

That lone piece of information had led the family to hold out hope that Silver was still alive and held captive along with more than 200 others in Gaza.

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“I feel there is still hope that she is alive and well and that we will be able to see her back with us,” Chen Zeigen said.

Six other Canadian citizens and one person with "deep connections to Canada" were killed in the Hamas attacks, according to Global Affairs Canada.

Idit Shamir, Israel's consul general in Toronto, called the news of Silver's death "tragic" on X.

"Our hearts go out to her family and friends," he wrote. "May her memory be a blessing."

—With files from Jeff Semple, Mercedes Stephenson and Caryn Lieberman

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver confirmed killed in Israel (msn.com)

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver confirmed killed in Israel